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...relation to the swimmer of the Catalina Channel (TIME, Jan. 24), Mr. Young, banker, married the famed singer, Lillian Nordica...
Died. John Ederle, 44, butcher uncle of Gertrude Ederle, famed Channel-swimmer; in an automobile accident at Uniondale, L. I. Henry ("Pop") Ederle is also a meatman...
Some in grease and some in bathing suits, some young, some old, all fat, all strong, all more or less indistinguishable as to sex and features, surrounded by tug boats, press boats, ferryboats, launches, shouted at by coaches, fed by trainers, 96 able swimmers got into the cold water at Catalina Island, one day last week and turned their numerous, goggled, and determined faces toward the unseen California mainland, 2 miles away. Day faded. Light came out on the shore. Now an then on the bow of a tug a trainer lit a red flare to show that his swimmer...
...flares of surrender were going up often now. Few were left to flay their ways through the black water. Only two of the men-George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing 25 Ibs. in this $25,000 venture...
George Washington, as all the world knows, crossed the Delaware with folded arms in a small boat, rowed by his ragged orderlies among vast cakes of ice. Last week, as part of a sesquicentennial celebration, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, swimmer, mother, swam across at the same place, on the same day of the year, in 10½ minutes. Mrs. Schoemmell is said to be of Hessian descent...